You'll never have particularly good odds to produce a GE in any one particular GPP cycle, so you just have to kind of keep at it and hope for the best. It doesn't make sense to save an early-ish GE until corporations, that's a huge opportunity cost. So it doesn't make sense to base your long-term strategy around Mining Inc.
If you are playing as Germany after researching Assembly line you can build the assembly Plant too turn 4 citizens into Engineers
Added to the one from the forge you are required to have to build an Assembly plant it gives any city a good chance.
In a city with any of the Engineering World Wonders that adds up to a lot of GE GPP's
If it is your Panzer works city with the Iron Works National Wonder also, your Engineer is in the bag.
Sometimes when Playing Rome at noble I build Pyramids and Hanging Gardens in the capitol, built Praetorians while waiting for the great engineer to come along, then bulb construction for the catapults. THen bleed off the extra population from the hanging gardens and rush some catapults or use the extra folks for more production - whichever makes sense for that particular map. Remember that you have to plan your tech path so the bulb will be construction. I dont recall what that is off the top of my head, but there are charts you can look it up on or just ask in the forum.
Not exactly a rush, because it takes so long. But it gives you an unstoppable army so you can now take as many neighbor cities as your economy can handle.
Anyway if you later build a forge that city would be good for generating a great engineer for the wonder or corp you want to found.
I don't think construction is worth wasting a GE on. Id save it for machinery or engineering if bulbing, or a wonder. Construction is easy to self tech fast enough.
- Mids, Hanging Gardens, Hagia Sophia + Forge in second city.
- Also got the forgemaster quest and a free engineer in that city (goes to first forge built so if you have events on, build your first forge in your GE city).
- Used first GE to partial rush Versailles in another city (GA from music used to partial bulb divine right), and second to hurry Uni of Sankore (also got Judaism as the AP religion). I might try to build Sistine Chapel somewhere too, maybe in my Parthenon city. I lost Glib to the AI, and very close to losing Hagia, I had to reload and maximize production with starvation for a whip as seen in the video.
- (Unfortunately) also founded Islam there, as originally I was going to build the national park on top of national epic as it had 5 plains + tundra forests. I might WB Islam holy city elsewhere though so I can put Wall Street somewhere else and keep national park for this GE farm.
- Later add an Assembly plant and Industrial park and fill all engineer slots (2 fish + sheep city).
And much later on, the super mega uber GE city is all done:
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